The award-winning and best-selling Planet Narnia argues that Lewis secretly constructed the Chronicles of Narnia out of the imagery associated with the seven heavens of the medieval cosmos. But is it really possible that Lewis could have invented and kept such a secret?

2010年5月12日 · Lewis masterfully yet often obliquely kneaded together myth, history, Bible, and current events into a coherent whole in the Narnia series. Planet Narnia provides the key that unlocks that coherence.

The award-winning and best-selling Planet Narnia argues that Lewis secretly constructed the Chronicles of Narnia out of the imagery associated with the seven heavens of the medieval cosmos. But is it really possible that Lewis could have invented and kept such a secret?

Find out how different scholars have tried to hunt down the elusive fox that is Narnia's hidden theme.

2008年1月15日 · “Planet Narnia” by Michael Ward is a book that traces the central theme throughout C.S. Lewis’s Narnia books. Wards argument is that Lewis was influential by medieval cosmology, the seven planets, and that each book centers around the “donegality” or “character trait” of each of the planets.

The thesis of Michael Ward’s Planet Narnia can be stated briefly: C.S. Lewis, although keeping it a secret, used, one by one, the seven planets of medieval astronomy/astrology as artistic themes for the seven Narnian books-basically one planet per book:

2019年12月5日 · Put briefly, Planet Narnia argues that Lewis intentionally structured the seven Narnian chronicles around the seven planets of medieval cosmology, so that each ‘star’ influenced a particular book in character development, wordplay, symbolic layering, Christological imagery, biblical intertextuality, and central theme. Lewis used medieval ...

2020年3月5日 · Demonstrates how C.S. Lewis used the characteristics from seven medieval planets to construct the cosmological themes in "The Chronicles of Narnia." Originally published: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008

Planet Narnia Chart Compiled by Brenton Dickieson Compiled from Michael Ward’s Planet Narnia (2008), his website, Lewis’ poem on “The Planets” (quotes in quotation marks), parts of Lewis’ The Discarded Image, and some research into the planets.

Planet Narnia is a ground-breaking study that will provoke a major revaluation not only of the Chronicles but of Lewis’s whole literary and theological outlook. Ward uncovers a much subtler writer and thinker than has previously been recognized, whose central interests were hiddenness, immanence, and knowledge by acquaintance.